The championships, the last domestic qualification event for next month's Olympics, lacked the fireworks with only high jumper Sahana Kumari of Karnataka making the London Game grade with here gold-winning effort of 1.92m.

Harwant, the 2010 Commonwealth silver medallist, could manage only 55.92m in the discus throw and hence could not join her teammates Krishna Poonia and Seema Antil in the London Olympics-bound squad.

Rajasthan's Shakti Singh recorded a personal best of 18.25m to take the men's shot put gold while long distance runner Kheta Ram brought another gold for the state in the 10,000m. clocking 29:49.71.

Metric miler Jhuma Khatun, who also represented Jharkhand, engaged in a keen tussle with Kerala girl S R Bindu in women's 1500m before winning gold in a thrilling finish on the home stretch. She clocked 4:28.31 to Bindu's 4:28.53.

The men's 15000m race also witnessed a close contest between Asian Indoor Games champion Chatholi Hamza (Kerala) and Haryana runner Sandeep which the latter won in 3:43.76. Hamza clocked 3:45.67 for the second place.

Delhi's Nitin outsprinted Tamil Nadu's Manikanda Arumugam in men's 200m with a time of 21.44 secs while Haryana's Manisha grab the gold in women's race in 24.26s. Andhra Pradesh's Satti Geetha who was trying to emulate her sprint double at the Patiala edition two years ago finished second in Monday's race with a time of 24.33 secs.

As expected, Kerala retained the overall title with a whooping 192 points while Uttar Pradesh finished a distant second in 82 points.

Punjab's intermediate hurdler Satinder Singh and Kerala half-miler Tintu Luka were adjudged as best male and female athletes of the championships.